I had a big bug out a while ago trying to describe my flashlight in a spider’s eye, lighting up the tapetum ludica, I think. I thought it like looking into a gap in a tent from out in the night at a fragment of a brilliantly patterned wool rug lit by a fire, so much so that when I read tapestry here I think “eye”. And of course I like very the idea of the eye as an endless room of tapestry — sort of a Christo? Lol.

Bill, you reminded me that the endless rooms of tapestry is a very old theme for me based on a very vivid, recurring childhood dream of walking through a series of beautiful rooms made of nothing but lush curtains, with each room of a different color. The idea of the eye as the endless room has really got me thinking.

Patterns and texture to me are somehow what helps to hold may of my favorite photos of yours together, taking over the job most of us leave merely to composition. Your eye (to use the word in (perhaps) another sense) is really unique, refreshing, and somehow helpful.

More reflection on Bill’s idea of “the eye as an endless room of tapestry.” I’ve always had loads of floaters in my eyes. Moving my eyes is like twisting kaleidoscopes manufactured with their shards encased in (thankfully light) corn syrup.

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50. Jefferson and Lincoln paired a society’s ability to govern itself with the proposition that all men are created equal. 51. Equal? Man requires a hierarchy (I’ll give Hobbes that), but Locke & Jefferson deliver: Man stands above Nature and below Nature’s God. 52. Jesus declares an equality-in-hierarchy: “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God” (John 20:17). 53. Christianity even honors all three levels – God, People, and Nature – with separate resurrections in order of hierarchy. 54. Man requires a hierarchy. So, from a political standpoint, there must be a God because there must be a man. That’s liberalism. 55. Natural law is based on human nature set (and tugged) between angels and beasts.